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It sucks that it’s not commonplace for managers to be accountable to their reports. Google has kinda structured things in this way, at least as far as I can te
by halbritt 8y ago
It sucks that it’s not commonplace for managers to be accountable to their reports.
Google has kinda structured things in this way, at least as far as I can tell from the outside. Managers can’t decide who is hired or fired and performance reviews are done by committee.
Seems pretty egalitarian but I’m told that even still, politics becomes an issue.
- toast0 8y agoI haven't worked at Google, but from what I've heard, politics becomes an even bigger issue. If you're only worried about your boss (and your boss's boss, presumably), that's like two people to impress. If you're going to get graded by a committee, not only do you have to do good work, you also have to make sure everybody on the committee knows you're doing good work; and you have to fight people on your team to get the opportunities to do visible good works.